Here's Wayne Reynolds' Cover of Paizo's BESTIARY 6!

Paizo today revealed the cover of it's latest Bestiary, the sixth of that name! The cover art is by Wayne Reynolds. The book itself is due out next month (April) and contains 200 new monsters, new player races, foes from myth and legend (including Krampus!) and a whole bunch more. You can preorder it over at the Paizo webstore.

Satanic Panic! Truly legendary heroes require truly legendary foes, and now these world-ending menaces have arrived! Within this book, you'll find hundreds of monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Test your mettle against Archdevils and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, two-headed dragons and the Wild Hunt, conqueror worms or living statues haunted by dead gods, troops of goblins or strangely sentient oozes, and myriad other menaces suitable for all levels of play! Yet not every legend needs to tell of foes, and within these pages you’ll also find that new empyreal lords, dragons from Heaven, and the mythical Green Man all stand ready to aid you on your quests—if you prove yourself worthy.

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 is the latest indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 6 includes:

More than 200 different monsters.

Strange new player-character-suitable races like the canine rougarou, the watery fey naiad, the crazed monkey goblin, and the Lovecraftian yaddithian, Darklands-dwelling munavri.

Powerful foes from myth and legend, such as the Archdevil Mephistopheles, Charon of the River Styx, and that notorious haunter of holidays known as Krampus!

New animal companions, constructs waiting creation by skilled spellcasters, and a new category of true dragon from the Outer Planes.

New templates to help you get more life out of classic monsters, including the shape-changing vermin-themed entothrope and the intelligent hivemind swarm.

Appendices to help you find the right monster, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat.

6 (hardcover, anyway) monster manuals , referencing a 10 year old playtest and " more than 10 years of system development". This system is getting extremely long in the tooth. I sure hope SF goes for a lighter system instead of feeling beholden to this behemoth, like TSR did with their AD&D editions.

6 (hardcover, anyway) monster manuals , referencing a 10 year old playtest and " more than 10 years of system development". This system is getting extremely long in the tooth. I sure hope SF goes for a lighter system instead of feeling beholden to this behemoth, like TSR did with their AD&D editions.

They have said that their number one goal for Starfinder is that the rules suit the tone of the game and the setting, with Pathfinder compatibility being a secondary but important consideration. If you ask me I don't think the Paizo game designers actually like to be locked down to Pathfinder rules, some have even said in the past that they would like to throw out entire parts of the rule set and replace them but they know they can't without alienating a lot of diehards who seem to be the core of their customers today. Starfinder might be a way around this, grow the base of Paizo a bit and maybe they will will be in a more stable position to kill a few sacred cows in Pathfinder.

They have said that their number one goal for Starfinder is that the rules suit the tone of the game and the setting, with Pathfinder compatibility being a secondary but important consideration. If you ask me I don't think the Paizo game designers actually like to be locked down to Pathfinder rules, some have even said in the past that they would like to throw out entire parts of the rule set and replace them but they know they can't without alienating a lot of diehards who seem to be the core of their customers today. Starfinder might be a way around this, grow the base of Paizo a bit and maybe they will will be in a more stable position to kill a few sacred cows in Pathfinder.

We'll see. if there are prestige classes, they failed to break free of 3.75.

Recently I picked up the print on demand version of The Primal Order by Wizards of the Coast founder Peter Adkison. I have the original edition of the book, I managed to grab a copy of it back in the day, and I have the other published books for the unfortunately uncompleted game line. The idea behind The Primal Order was to build what they called a "capsystem" that would work as an overlay to other game systems, expanding them into new directions. The Primal Order line dealt with gods and clerics, an important part of many fantasy role-playing games.

One of the first rules they teach you in those pesky freshman-year composition courses is "know your audience." Before you sit down to write a text, consider who's going to be reading it and plan accordingly. When it comes to tabletop role-playing games, I've always considered the game master to be the primary audience of published adventures. Game masters are far more likely than players to read the text of an adventure, so why wouldn't a designer write with the game master in mind?

A lot has been made recently about specific games for gaming with your children. A lot of products in the last five years have focused on this with a wide variety options and feels from Hero Kids, Little Heroes and the upcoming Last Unicorn RPG from Playground Adventures. With that I thought I'd provide a review of a game I used for a long time to get kids into gaming – Steve Jackson Games's Toon.

Welcome back folks, it’s time for the PAIZO NEWS ROUNDUP, your one-stop spot for all the new and interesting material coming from your favorite ever-giving golem. In this go-round, we’ll pick up some new toys that got left out of the earlier look at Ultimate Wilderness, and also introduce a brand new Player Companion. Let’s get started!